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Conceptualization And Design Of A Surface Translation Balance Training Device, Annie Djukic, Omri Tayyara, Deborah Espy, Majid Rashidi

Undergraduate Research Posters 2013

Research supports the idea that dynamic control of both a person's center of mass and base of support are necessary to prevent falls, and that older adults can learn this combined control through specific balance training. Effective balance training requires a large number of repetitions of task-specific practice. Externally induced movements have been employed in balance studies both to test and train balance responses, most often using mechanized surface perturbations. These systems however are quite expensive; therefore, we chose to investigate a more cost effective solution focusing on surface translation for balance training in our lab.

We performed a literature …